Legal Opinion
Fountain v. Kelly
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 23, 1993No. 91-CV-1462PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Appellants, who include homeless residents of the District of Columbia as well as the National Coalition for the Homeless, appeal from a trial court order dated November 15, 1991. In that order, the trial judge vacated, on the basis of the District of Columbia Council’s clarifying amendment of local law, a previously entered preliminary injunction in which the judge had required the Mayor and other officials of the District of Columbia, among other things, to cease housing homeless families with minor children in shelters and to provide them with apartment style…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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